Transmission Deep Pans??
Race Director
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From: Waterloo ontario Canada
Re: Transmission Deep Pans?? (79er)
You can easily check it out for yourself. Just take a look at it by jacking it up, getting a oil change and asking to look underneith, find a hill and drive the front end up a little for clearance or take a old mirror and slid it under the car. The deeper pans have the same gasket so they just hang down lower.
Look and you can see if anything would hit if a 1 inch deeper pan was installed.
Look and you can see if anything would hit if a 1 inch deeper pan was installed.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Apr 2000
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From: Ft. Walton Beach, Fl USA
Re: Transmission Deep Pans?? (79er)
I have a deep pan on my 700R. It's the lowest point under the car. I fragged it once on a stump in a park but I suppose I should have been paying better attention to where I was going.
Le Mans Master
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From: Hoosier
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Re: Transmission Deep Pans?? (79er)
On my 72 witha turbo 400 auto...I bought and returned a B&M aluminum pan. Those pans hold 2 quarts more and are nearly two inches deeper. I was afriad of of that. Then I bought a Derale pan, which is about one inch deeper. That pan has cooling tubes in it, and believe me they do work. My selector shaft used to be warm to hot, now it's cool to warm because of much less trans heat transfering up. :)
Melting Slicks
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Re: Transmission Deep Pans?? (79er)
Have you been watching the threads on remote trans coolers?
That might be a more effective way to go and you don't have to worry about clearance. $0.02
Does anyone have any experience with the transmission cooler additive (similar to water wetter)? The bottle I looked at quoted temps 20 or 40 degrees cooler.
That might be a more effective way to go and you don't have to worry about clearance. $0.02
Does anyone have any experience with the transmission cooler additive (similar to water wetter)? The bottle I looked at quoted temps 20 or 40 degrees cooler.
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Racer
Joined: Oct 2000
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From: Cedar Rapids Iowa
Re: Transmission Deep Pans?? (jerryp58)
Thanks for the advice jerry, but I already have a remote cooler for the tranny. I'm looking for other things to help cool it. As for the additives I have hear both ways great and bad.
